Essential Cosmic Perspective
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Chapter 3, Problem 26EAP
Choose the best answer to each of the following. Explain your reasoning with one or more complete sentences.
26. Tycho Brahe’s contribution to astronomy included (a) inventing the telescope. (b) proving that Earth orbits the Sun. (c) collecting data that enabled Kepler to discover the laws of planetary motion.
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